Word: chryslers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Approximately 40 employees walked out at the Briggs Body Company's Mack Avenue plant and the Dodge division of the Chrysler Motor Corp. A shortage of Briggs-made equipment forced Chrysler's Plymouth plant to curtail operations...
...powdered metal parts in the 1942 cars add up to only three pounds, but automotive engineers predict that before long there will be 100 pounds in almost every model. Meantime, subsidiaries of both Chrysler and General Motors are busy supplying thousands of other manufacturers with powdered metal gears, bearings, parts for airplane engines, guns, ships, household equipment-everything in which wheels and levers turn...
About five years ago Chrysler turned to powder metallurgy to make a door-latch part which would be 1) self-oiling, like a bearing, 2) quieter than clangy solid metal. Besides offering these advantages, this part surprised engineers by being easier and cheaper to make from powder than by former methods. From this and similar pressed parts a wave of interest in powder metallurgy at once swept U.S. industry. First powdered-metal automotive gear appeared in the oil pump of the 1940 Oldsmobile, and this year more new parts have been made from powders...
...Chrysler dealers throughout the U.S. last week began setting their own retail prices, thus ditched price policies as old as the automobile industry itself. Heretofore the manufacturer has advertised "Delivered in Detroit" prices up & down the country. But now Chrysler ads will mention no prices. Distributors will buy their Chryslers, Dodges, De Sotos, Plymouths at fixed wholesale prices, sell them for whatever the traffic (and the competition) will bear...
...scheme is not new; Graham-Paige Motors tried it in 1940. Because of elastic used-car allowances, rebates, finance charges, etc., dealers have always helped set retail prices in fact. But now Chrysler dealers will get the whole job. Thus they will have a chance to recoup possible losses from having fewer cars to sell, and they will bear the onus of blame for higher prices...